Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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we run the 44 and are primarily cover 3. There are 2 teams that are flat out bigger and stronger than us. We have beaten them in shootouts the last 2 years with games in the 30's and 40's, but we need to slow them down. We don't have that offensive capability this season. Their Te is 6'4, 230 and can play. He buries our DE much of the time. We have blitzed, slanted, gamed our olb and de, and rolled our coverage as much as possible when they go pro and twins. They then go unbalanced with this: E G C G T T E I formation and wing left with it.
They run toss strong and weak, motion the wing to playside C gap and run iso, and counter weak with the qb or tb. The pass is off the counter weak.How would you line up to the unbalanced and what adjustments would you make in a base 44 and to this. Thanks
I am assuming that when they get into this formation that the offense personel's with two TE's and the FB / RB. I've seen a similar formation without the wing and the biggest mistake in my opinion is giving up the edge of the formation strongside to the offense. I would bring in an extra DE and align him in the "E" gap on the edge of the TE strongside to the 4 man surface (Call it a 9+ technique). I also would not sacrifice one of my defensive linemen by playing in the "C" gap between the two tackles where they can double team him into next week !! Usually the over OT doesn't move as well as your LB's so don't allow him to simply come down on your DL - make him chase your second level defenders. I run a 4 - 3 defense and this is how I've adjusted to teams that run this.
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Q W E G C G T T E 5 S 3 9 9+
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I would also have them play games with the motion, for example, if the wing back motioned into the strongside "C" gap and they ran double iso - I would have the 9 and 9+ tech slant or pinch their inside gaps and blitz the CB off the edge. You could also play man free and have the CB blitz the gap the wing back blocks in. You could also have the SLB blitz the gap and have the CB on top if your corner is too frail or ineffective for the blitz. I hope this helps !! Good Luck !!
oksie, i didn't understand the alignment of your adjustment. what is the alignment of the CB who is to the strong side ? do your lb adjust at all from their normal alignment ?
one thing that we do is kick the front strong. treat the OG to the strong side as the center, now you have a balanced formation ( double TE ) if you do that. so the OG is the center and the DL and LB align off of him like they would if the normally. so the front would look like this: outside shade on the E, OS on the G, IS on the C, OS on the T, IS on the TE. the ILB would be head up on the C & T. so you would end up having ( if the Guard is the Center now ): 9, 5, 1, 3, 9; 30, 30.
or we move the front strong 1/2 man, except the weak DE, kick the LB over. still treat the OG as the Center. roll up the wk. side CB, move the F/S over and play c - 2 behind it. if you are playing 6,3,1,5 up front, they now look like wide 9 ( inside the widest E ), 4i, shade weak, 5. the SLB will move from a 30 techn. to a 60 techn., WLB will move from a 30 techn. to a 20 techn. strong. the OLB: Wk. side OLB will move inside to a 50 or 40 techn., Stg. side OLB will play normal alignment off of the widest E.
i know of one coach who plays it like this: out of a 50 defense he makes no alignment adjustments, except he puts his S/S on the LOS and automatically blitzes him off of the edge, and the DE to the Strong side stunts his gap. the SILB will blitz through either the C gap strong or A gap weak based on the path of the FB or TB whoever is his key. the rest of the Defense plays normal. they align: 6, 4, head up NG, 4i, 6, S/S just outside of the E. LB are 30 techn. the SILB is about 3 yards off the ball. the wk. 4i and the NG will stunt through the first gap to the strong side getting as much penetration as possible. they play man cov. behind it.
i hope you understood the information in the post. i tried to answer your question as best as i could. remember i am just a coach. LOL.
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I would align the front exactly as you explained in your 1st example as far as the defensive line goes. Obviously, you explained it better than I did. The LB's would align differently since our base is a 4 -3. In our standard 4 - 3 alignments we would be in (WLB) - "40" alignment on OT (MLB) - "10" alignment on OC (SLB) "50" alignment on the 1st OT. The strongside corner would play cloud support against the wingback and be primary force. The FS would align on top of the OC or the strongside TE based on the field/ hash relationship and the backside/weakside corner would align 2 x 6 off the weakside TE.
P.S. - I tried to type of the formation and defensive alignment to it, but I couldn't get it aligned correctly once I posted it. I don't know why, but I know I'm no computer genius !!